Elizabeth Reid Boyd Elizabeth Reid Boyd i(7899153 works by)
Writing name for: Eliza Redgold
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1 ‘I Want an Orgasm but Not Just Any Orgasm’ : How To Please A Woman Shifts the Way We Depict the Sexuality of Older Women Debra Dudek , Elizabeth Reid Boyd , Madalena Grobbelaar , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 25 May 2022;
1 Loving Captivity Review : A Delightful Rom-com Captures Life under Coronavirus Elizabeth Reid Boyd , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 31 July 2020;
— Review of Loving Captivity Libby Butler , Lewis Mulholland , 2020 series - publisher

'Of all the challenges of intimate relationships, finding the balance between separateness and togetherness can be most difficult. It is a balance the COVID-19 lockdown has put to the test.' 
1 Romancing Feminism : From Women’s Studies to Women’s Fiction Elizabeth Reid Boyd , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Journal of Popular Culture , September vol. 3 no. 3 2014; (p. 263-272() 'After more than a decade as a feminist researcher and teaching women’s studies at tertiary level, I decided to investigate a new direction. Driven in part by the demise of women’s studies in universities – an international phenomenon – and looking for something completely different, I attended my first Romance Writers of Australia conference. To my surprise, the scene was all too familiar: predominantly female participants and presenters, a collaborative leadership model, a supportive atmosphere and lots of purple. In this article I muse upon arguments that romance is a form of feminism. Going back to its history in the Middle Ages and its invention by noblewomen who created the notion of courtly love, examining its contemporary popular explosion and the concurrent rise of popular romance studies in the academy that has emerged in the wake of women’s studies, and positing an empowering female future for the genre, I propose that reading and writing romantic fiction is not only personal escapism, but also political activism. Now also a published romance novelist, I chart my own Harlequin Escape from the ivory tower to the boudoir.' (Publication summary)
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